Interested in helping improve the Fedora desktop experience?

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 15:40 +0000, Colin Walters wrote:
> 2009/10/21 Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org>:
> >
> > I've attached an email I received from a very technical Java developer
> > writing about his F11 install experience this past weekend, after
> > remembering I had it. I would qualify it as being even worse than
> > terrible which is probably why the word came to mind in the first place. :(
> 
> The anaconda crashes aside, look like most of the serious problems
> were graphics driver related.  I think the story particularly with
> nVidia will be notably better with F12.
> 
> Personally I don't worry too much about this kind of thing because we
> have a fundamental disadvantage here of not being preinstalled with
> the computer.  Ever tried to install Windows on a blank machine
> without having all the drivers beforehand?  It sucks.

Right, these were simple code bugs, not process interaction problems.
It'd be nice if you could ask the guy to let us know if the blank screen
bug persists in F12 (ask him to boot the F12 live CD, if he's got a bit
of time to try it). The problem he had with partitioning - F11 was the
first release with the anaconda storage rewrite included, it was known
to be relatively buggy in that area, unfortunately. Again, if he can
test with F12 and see if he still has problems it'd be very helpful.

But none of that seems particularly related to any design / interface
issues, and not really on-topic for this list.

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